The Tuesday podcast returns to the issues surrounding domestic violence in our society that CEO Barb Judt was going to raise a year ago on campus radio - until RRC made the choice to stifle free speech and protect the fiefdoms of their "media partners" by canceling The Great Canadian Talk Show without notice that day, rather than have the story of Manitoba's largest shelter heard and help protect vulnerable women and children.
When she tried to address College officials involved with the Kick-FM board about their arbitrary actions, she was misled, outright lied to, and ignored. The President of Red River College Stephanie Forsyth and her obedient staff of censors "demonstrated insensitivity to Osborne House", says Barb, and they failed to recognize that their own students are among the most common demographic of victims. She appears on TGCTS today to set the record straight as part of Domestic Violence Awareness month.
Listen to Barb explain:
- how dysfunctional childhood backgrounds create volcanic environments for adults
- that new technology is enabling more pervasive stalking techniques
- the spiraling demand for protective services from new immigrants, who are shunned for refusing to be imprisoned in their homes and beaten
- why business owners and managers have a vested interest in raising awareness and funding shelter services to help their employees deal with domestic violence
- how the NDP government has finally moved on the funding crisis
- why mainstream media shies away from reporting about the issues Barb and her staff deal with every day
The details touched on in this interview about the role OH(@OsborneHouseWPG)
serves with children and new Canadians are of utmost importance. This is a podcast that listeners should email to everyone they know, and to elected officials they may not know but who control the public pursestrings.
Also today, Los Angeles homelessness activist/documentarian Mark Horvath (@hardlynormal) - whose speech at CDI College this summer was attended by ZERO MSM reporters, ZERO CEO's and ZERO Downtown Biz representatives - made an observation this weekend about the true test of people who claim they want to help find solutions.
Listeners may also want to send his remark to everyone they know and to elected officials they don't know, it's that good. Some local phony-baloney "leaders" would surely pale at the thought of living up to Horvath's standard.
The shout-outs today include a blogger, musicians, an online radio industry hub, a newspaper rep, and a journalism instructor. Plus news in progress about a planned gathering of our Facebook group members on Wednesday evening.
HERE IS THE LINK TO THE TUESDAY PODCAST:
http://tgctspod.podbean.com/2011/11/08/osborne-house-ceo-barb-judt-speaks-out-domestic-violence-and-the-underfunded-womens-shelter/
PS: GO TO THE RED TOP DRIVE-IN ON THURSDAY BETWEEN 8 AM AND 9 PM FOR A FOOD NETWORK TAPING OF "YOU GOTTA EAT HERE"
